SOUTH AFRICA VS INDIA – T20I SERIES – SQUADS ANNOUNCED!!

Team India’s tour of South Africa reached the final phase when two teams faces each other in a three match T20 international series later this week. Both teams has revealed their respective squads for this shorter format series which begins on 18th February. On the absence of South Africa skipper Faf du Plessis, the experienced batting all-rounder JP Duminy has been appointed as the captain for T20I series. Team India set to play once again under the captaincy of Virat Kohli.

South Africa brought in lot of new players to their squad for this three match series. Wicket keeper Batsman Heinrich Klaasen who is doing well in the ongoing ODI series, gets his place in T20I series as well. After performed well in the Ram Slam domestic T20 competition, Junior Dala and Chris Jonker earned an opportunity to represent national team for the first time. An explosive batsmen AB de Villiers and David Miller retains their places in the squad meanwhile Hashim Amla omitted from the squad along with an injured Quinton de Kock. Farhaan Behardien who sits in the bench in the ongoing ODI series, expected to play a key role in T20I series. Brilliant Ram Slam season brings Reeza Hendricks to the national squad after very long time. The batting all rounder JJ Smuts also coming back to T20I squad after sometime gap while Chris Morris and Andile Phehlukwayo are other all rounders in the squad. South Africa has two left-arm spinners in the squad and they are Tabraiz Shamsi and Aaron Phangiso.

Team India has announced 16-man squad for the upcoming series and they have a well mixed of young and experienced players in their group. Lokesh Rahul who returned back to home after test series will join the team again for the shorter format series and he will replaces Ajinkya Rahana from the ODI squad. Limited overs specialist Suresh Raina coming back to Blue jersey after quite long time. The biggest buy among Indian players in this year IPL Auction, Jaydev Unadkat retains his place in the T20I squad based on his good performances in the series against Sri Lanka back in December. India continue to go with good top order batting unit which contains skipper Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Manish Pandey and Dinesh Karthik. As usual MS Dhoni will take care of wicket-keeper’s duty and also batting in middle-order. Hardik Pandya keeps his place as a specialist all-rounder despite his poor performances on the tour. Wrist spinners Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav once again in the squad to threaten the opposition and they have a company of Axar Patel again. The front-line pace bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah are in the squad and they will continue to put pressure on South Africa with their experiences in the format.

SQUADS :

SOUTH AFRICA :

JP Duminy

Farhaan Behardien

Junior Dala

AB de Villiers

Reeza Hendricks

Christiaan Jonker

Heinrich Klaasen

David Miller

Chris Morris

Dane Paterson

Aaron Phangiso

Andile Phehlukwayo

Tabraiz Shamsi

JJ Smuts

INDIA :

Virat Kohli

Rohit Sharma

Shikhar Dhawan

Lokesh Rahul

Suresh Raina

MS Dhoni

Dinesh Karthik

Hardik Pandya

Manish Pandey

Axar Patel

Yuzvendra Chahal

Kuldeep Yadav

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Jasprit Bumrah

Jaydev Unadkat

Shardul Thakur

The 1st match of the upcoming three match series to be played on coming Sunday, February 18, followed by 2nd and 3rd match on 21st and 24th February respectively.

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